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The Pirate Bay is down, after Swedish Police shut down the servers

The infamous torrent website, The Pirate Bay, has been down since 1:52 AM PST yesterday.

And if you were wondering if it was offline, due to maintenance , you couldn’t be more wrong.

The servers of the website has allegedly been seized by Swedish Police, who also detained one person. The news comes via TorrentFreak, whose sources say that the shutdown took place in an undisclosed location in Greater Stockholm. This is what a statement from the police national coordinator for IP enforcement Paul Pintér said:

“There has been a crackdown on a server room in Greater Stockholm. This is in connection with violations of copyright law.”

An expert file-sharing case prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, said:

“There were a number of police officers and digital forensics experts there. This took place during the morning and continued until this afternoon. Several servers and computers were seized, but I cannot say exactly how many.”

While the reports do not confirm that the Police raids were in connection with TPB, it appears that the crackdown wasn’t targeting TPB alone. Many other torrent sites were taken down including EZTV, and The Pirate Bay’s forums.